Charlie – Bartlett
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Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett (drama)
Cast: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Kat Dennings, Hope Davis
Direction: Jon Poll
Long years ago, it was Holden Caulfield who was thrown out of an upmarket prep school to end up as an iconic teen hero in J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) is a worthy heir to Caulfield’s rebellious teen angst in this sassy and smart teen comedy that brings back the dysfunctional 1970s-1980s, when teenagers hadn’t yet transmuted into the well-adjusted I-pod generation.
Charlie (Anton Yelchin), a poor little rich kid, is thrown out of almost all the private schools, much to the discomfiture of his single mother (Hope Davis) who is forced to send him to the neighbourhood public school. Naturally, Charlie, in his shirt and tie, is a total misfit in the plebeian environs and ends up bearing the brunt of the school bully on his first day at school.
But Charlie is a survivor and soon ends up the most popular guy on campus, donning the cap of the in-house shrink who offers a pill for every solution. Having been prescribed Ritalin by his own shrink, he begins dispensing them to all his peers suffering from low esteem, heart-break, popularity craze….School’s a rollercoaster ride, but for the perceptive principal (Robert Downey Jr) and his irresistible daughter (Kat Denning) who finds Charlie alluring too.
Compelling performances by Robert Downey Jr and Anton Yelchin coupled with an undercurrent of comedy make this an interesting film that mirrors high school life with all its highs and lows.
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